Located at: Tyumen, Khokhryakova St., 33.
Date of creation: early 20th century.
Description:
The composition of the one-story wooden building on a stone basement half-story goes back to a rather archaic, traditional dwelling, scheme of a two-storey house with a connection, i.e. it consists of two volumes connected by a vestibule. At the same time, the interpretation of this composition bears the features of "exemplary" projects of the classicism period. The proximity to the classicist canons is expressed in the organization of the three-window street facade, completed with a high gable of the triangular pediment of the gable roof. In its tympanum there is a semicircular window, processed with radially diverging boards. Against the background of details characteristic of classicism. The onlooker would be attracted to the building by the magnificent baroque form of the window frames, based on the techniques of applied volumetric-plastic carving.
Historical background:
Mikhail Efimovich Dementyev (1860 – 1929), the patriarch of the Tyumen shipping company, participant in the first ever voyage along the Ob to London.
Mikhail Efimovich Dementyev was born in the village of Aramil (today – the city of Aramil near Yekaterinburg) in the family of a factory weaver. In Mikhail’s early years, the family moved to Tyumen.
In 1879-1882, Mikhail Dementyev worked at a shipyard in Tyumen, then served as an assistant captain on the steamship Polezny. In 1885, he became the head of the Tyumen pier, and later – the manager of the trading house Kornilov and Heirs. In 1912-1914, Mikhail Efimovich headed one of the largest joint-stock companies of the Tyumen region and Siberia, the West Siberian Shipping and Trade Partnership. In these positions, he made a significant contribution to the development of shipping in our region. Under his leadership, the steamships Ivan Kornilov, Alexey, barges Shilka, Pravda, and others were built. In the following years, he was promoted to the management of banking affairs in Tyumen, and then, in 1923-1926, he served in the shipping companies of Tobolsk and Omsk. In 1926, he returned to Tyumen, where he served in the mutual credit society. Mikhail Dementyev died in Tyumen on January 8, 1929.
